Riders to the Sea Questions and Answers [BROAD TYPE QUESTIONS: 10/15 MARKS] 1. Theme of the Play [Q. How does the play Riders to the Sea fulfill the themes of resignation and reconciliation? Or, Q. What are the themes in Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge? ] Riders to the Sea is a … Read more
Riders to the Sea Summary by John Millington Synge An Introductory Note: Riders to the Sea, is a one-act play by John Millington Synge, published in 1903 and produced in 1904. Riders to the Sea is set in the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland and is based on a tale Synge … Read more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Questions and Answers [BROAD TYPE QUESTIONS: 10/15 MARKS] 1. Theme of the Novel [Q. Discuss the themes of escape in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man. Or, Q. What is the lesson of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young … Read more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary By James Joyce An Introductory Note: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914-15 and in book form in 1916; considered by the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel … Read more
Preludes Questions and Answers By TS Eliot BROAD QUESTIONS 1. Attempt a short critical estimate of T. S. Eliot’s Preludes. Preludes is a ‘fine evocation of contemporary life with its atmosphere of depression and decay brilliantly conveyed’. Here in the most contemptuous and ironical terms the poet describes the squalor and the ugliness of the … Read more
Prelude Summary TS Eliot ANNOTATIONS ON THE TEXT Gist: The winter evening in the city of London emits the smell of pieces of fried meat. The stormy wind pushes about bits of leaves coated with dirt and newspapers from vacant unoccupied places of the open. The houses have broken and dingy blinds. The cabhorse … Read more
